Catherine Luciani
Description
Catherine Luciani is the professional name of an American voice actress whose career in anime dubbing and voice-over work spanned from the early 1980s until her retirement around 2008. She is also known professionally as Catherine Battistone and has occasionally been credited as Katerina Luciani.
Luciani's career was centered in the Los Angeles-based anime dubbing industry, where she contributed to numerous English adaptations of Japanese anime series and films during the 1990s and 2000s. Before focusing on voice acting, she made minor on-screen appearances in television series and films, but her most lasting work was in providing voices for animated productions.
Her anime filmography includes a range of significant roles. She provided the voice for Captain Magno Vivan in both the original Vandread series and its sequel, Vandread: The Second Stage. She also voiced the Grand Master of Witches in the series Tweeny Witches and took on the role of Saki Enno in Zenki. Among her other notable roles, she voiced Taiisukun and the Narrator in Fushigi Yūgi and its associated original video animations, Diamond Ryugu in Dinozaurs, and Methuselah in Witch Hunter Robin. Earlier in her career, she voiced the lead role of Gen Nakaoka in the English dub of the 1983 animated war drama Barefoot Gen.
In addition to her anime work, Luciani is known for providing the voice of the robot Alpha 6 in the live-action series Power Rangers: Turbo. Her professional output includes voice work for anime distributed by companies such as Streamline Pictures and for productions featured on home video release and television networks. She retired from voice acting in 2008.
Luciani's career was centered in the Los Angeles-based anime dubbing industry, where she contributed to numerous English adaptations of Japanese anime series and films during the 1990s and 2000s. Before focusing on voice acting, she made minor on-screen appearances in television series and films, but her most lasting work was in providing voices for animated productions.
Her anime filmography includes a range of significant roles. She provided the voice for Captain Magno Vivan in both the original Vandread series and its sequel, Vandread: The Second Stage. She also voiced the Grand Master of Witches in the series Tweeny Witches and took on the role of Saki Enno in Zenki. Among her other notable roles, she voiced Taiisukun and the Narrator in Fushigi Yūgi and its associated original video animations, Diamond Ryugu in Dinozaurs, and Methuselah in Witch Hunter Robin. Earlier in her career, she voiced the lead role of Gen Nakaoka in the English dub of the 1983 animated war drama Barefoot Gen.
In addition to her anime work, Luciani is known for providing the voice of the robot Alpha 6 in the live-action series Power Rangers: Turbo. Her professional output includes voice work for anime distributed by companies such as Streamline Pictures and for productions featured on home video release and television networks. She retired from voice acting in 2008.
All Characters
- EnglishAnime overview: Huckleberry Finn Monogatari
- EnglishAnime overview: Tweeny Witches
- English
- EnglishAnime overview: Vandread: The Second Stage
- EnglishAnime overview: Vandread